Jacob T. Levy
jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
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Jacob T. Levy is an American political theorist and Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University. Levy is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at McGill, as well as the coordinator of McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies and the founding director of McGill's Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. Levy is also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Institute for Humane Studies. He is known for his expertise on multiculturalism, liberalism, and pluralism. .. more

Political science 68%
Law 8%

Senator Cassidy, you knew he was a snake when you picked him up.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
MAHA Group Pledges $1 Million to Help Defeat Senator Cassidy in Louisiana Primary
www.nytimes.com

Then they throw in the added unrelated disclaimer about sleep.

Saw the headline, went looking for this, and found it. The headline makes it sound as if the anti-dementia effect is limited to the 2-3 cup range, but it's not. The health benefits of coffee in general seem to be like this— they don't keep increasing with more, but they flatten out.

yes.

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In 2022 I was at Cato, working to launch a journal intended to oppose national conservatism. I quit when my boss told me that I shouldn’t single Trump out for criticism, and I should describe Biden as about equally bad.

They say everyone should quit on principle at least once. That one was mine.

She was an occasional contributor during those years but she was fired from her staff job in November 2016.

That doesn't prove causation, and Mangu-Ward has said in public that she "disagree[s] with the implied characterization of our parting" with Dalmia.

So, I'm not claiming proof, but neither am I pulling this out of thin air.

This wasn't illegal and so wasn't adjudicated in a court, so I'm not sure what kind of evidence you're looking for. The *correlation*— that she was a vigorous and consistent Trump critic who refused to play the both-sides game, and then at the end of November 2016 she was gone— is there in public.

yep.

Posted this on Facebook in November 2016.

A decade later, "we told you so"— about both sides' use of intrusive state power and executive power, *not* about the growth of the alt right/ postliberalism or Trump's racist ideology or anything else Trump-specific — remains a go-to move far too often.

habits of mind that were badly suited to the crisis of the last decade.

I didn't say either of those things, ftr. I think that there's a reflexive criticize-both-sides impulse in the institutional DNA of Reason in particular, as well as in a lot of organized libertarianism more generally. It served Reason's distinctive voice well for a long time, but left it with...

Hmmm. I've had a lot to complain about wrt Reason in the last decade but that one doesn't seem right. Katherine Mangu-Ward, Stephanie Slade, and Elizabeth Nolan Brown are all reasonably prominent and have provided a lot of the magazine's voice. Mangu-Ward was editor when Dalmia was fired.

*Then you don't know enough libertarians to be making generalizations.
Yes, some libertarians *did* try to warn you about Trump. But you canceled them for it.
Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
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It sounds frustrating to wait on the moods and attention of a sunsetting angry deranged addled mind. I'm sure we all feel very bad for those poor powerless Republican officials who are certainly all looking for the guy who did this.
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

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And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com

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Yikes: the alternative TPUSA “All-American” Halftime Show had fewer than 14,000 views.

Sure— my point is that the *tourist-specific* part, on top of the longstanding homegrown New Orleans lifestyle, seems explicable by the hundreds of miles to the east and west where there was no drinking allowed.

(Montreal had a similar role during Prohibition itself.)

The postwar configuration here seems relevant to the development of New Orleans as a site for drunken revelry by tourists.

I don’t think Craig is a worst case, not at all!
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
Five years ago I caught my dumbest ban
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"

RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."